How to format your references using the Journal of the American Heart Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author
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Goldston D. Big data: Data wrangling. Nature. 2008;455:15.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Casillas CE, Kammen DM. Environment and development. The energy-poverty-climate nexus. Science. 2010;330:1181–1182.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Bieber FR, Brenner CH, Lazer D. Human genetics. Finding criminals through DNA of their relatives. Science. 2006;312:1315–1316.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Navarro L, Dunoyer P, Jay F, Arnold B, Dharmasiri N, Estelle M, Voinnet O, Jones JDG. A plant miRNA contributes to antibacterial resistance by repressing auxin signaling. Science. 2006;312:436–439.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book
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Fell GJ. Decoding the IT Value Problem. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.
An edited book
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Milano G, Grasso A, eds. Shoulder Arthroscopy: Principles and Practice. London: Springer; 2014: 1-XXIII, 622 p. 423 illus., 341 illus. in color.
A chapter in an edited book
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Tsutsumi A, Shimazu A. Guidelines for Primary Prevention for Mental Health at Work. In: Shimazu A, Bin Nordin R, Dollard M, Oakman J, eds. Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific: From Theory to Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016: 61–75.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of the American Heart Association.

Blog post
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Andrew D. Bizarre Cloud Formations Spotted Above British Columbia. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/strange-cloud-formations/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report
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Government Accountability Office. Transportation Security: DHS Efforts to Eliminate Redundant Background Check Investigations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
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Jennings S. Hiring, promotions, and identity negotiation of female hiring agents in American corporate retail. 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article
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Kelly C. Linking History and Fortunes of a City and a Team. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference 1.
This sentence cites two references 1,2.
This sentence cites four references 1–4.

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of the American Heart Association
AbbreviationJ. Am. Heart Assoc.
ISSN (online)2047-9980
ScopeCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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